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Steve Denton, rich from years of prospecting, is fleeced by the citizens of Yellow Ridge. In his rage, he kidnaps the woman most responsible and makes her his slave in a desert hideaway. He hates all white men (and women) and refuses to aid a wagon train of farmers dying in the desert... at least until he meets Mary Jane, an innocent and brave young girl among them.

After years of labor, miner Steve Denton gathers up his fortune and sets out to visit his ailing mother. He is detained, however, in the town of Yellow Ridge, where a dance hall girl named Trixie not only cheats him of his gold, but also conceals a message wired to him from his dying mother. Learning the next day that his mother is dead, Steve kills Trixie's lover and then drags the dance hall girl into the desert, where he assumes the leadership of a band of Indian and Mexican bandits. Two years later, a caravan of Mississippi farmers, lost in the desert, appeals to Steve for help, but he refuses. That night, one of the settlers, little Mary Jane, visits him secretly to plead their cause and express her belief that no white man would refuse to protect a woman in distress. Deeply moved, Steve guides the caravan out of the desert and then resumes his wanderings.